Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Generic
The Unbranding of Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Generic drugs are now familiar objects in clinics, drugstores, and households around the world. We like to think of these tablets, capsules, patches, and ointments as interchangeable with their brand-name counterparts: why pay more for the same? And yet they are not quite the same. They differ in...
Clandestine Marriage
Botany and Romantic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Romanticism was a cultural and intellectual movement characterized by discovery, revolution, and the poetic as well as by the philosophical relationship between people and nature. Botany sits at the intersection where romantic scientific and literary discourses meet. Clandestine Marriage explores...
American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century
Social, Political, and Economic Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
First published in 1999, American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century offered a comprehensive introduction to the central issues facing American colleges and universities. This thoroughly revised edition brings the classic volume up to date. The contributors have rewritten every chapter to...
Exploration and Engineering
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Although the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has become synonymous with the United States’ planetary exploration during the past half century, its most recent focus has been on Mars. Beginning in the 1990s and continuing through the Mars Phoenix mission of 2007, JPL led the way...
The Science of Ocean Waves
Ripples, Tsunamis, and Stormy Seas
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
"Powerful ocean waves fascinate the public, and they have made a lot of news lately." With that indisputable observation, scientist J. B. Zirker takes off on a whirlwind tour of the world of waves—from the "ordinary" waves that constantly churn the sea to the rogues or freaks...
Dizziness
Why You Feel Dizzy and What Will Help You Feel Better
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Anyone who has experienced the sensation of the room spinning around or the lightheadedness that signals an impending faint knows how bad it feels to be dizzy. Almost any medical condition can cause dizziness, but the most common include benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, transient drops in blood...
Get Inside Your Doctor's Head
Ten Commonsense Rules for Making Better Decisions about Medical Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
With so many medical tests and treatments and so much scientific and medical information—some of it contradictory—how can people make the best medical decisions?
Most medical decisions, it turns out, are based on common sense. In this short and easy-to-read book, Dr. Phillip K. Peterson...
Mad-Doctors in the Dock
Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Shortly before she pushed her infant daughter headfirst into a bucket of water and fastened the lid, Annie Cherry warmed the pail because, as she later explained to a police officer, "It would have been cruel to put her in cold water." Afterwards, this mother sat down and poured herself...
The Quick Guide to Wild Edible Plants
Easy to Pick, Easy to Prepare
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
A recent rise in the popularity of urban farming, farmers’ markets, and foraging from nature means more people are looking for information about plants. In The Quick Guide to Wild Edible Plants, botanists Lytton John Musselman and Harold J. Wiggins coach you on how to safely identify, gather, and...
by Leslie Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
New York just might be the most biologically diverse city in temperate America. The five boroughs sit atop one of the most naturally rich sites in North America, directly under the Atlantic migratory flyway, at the mouth of a 300-mile-long river, and on three islands—Manhattan, Staten, and Long.
Leslie...
The Breast Reconstruction Guidebook
Issues and Answers from Research to Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
For a decade The Breast Reconstruction Guidebook has been the best resource on this topic for women who have had a mastectomy. Equal parts science and support, it is filled with stories that illustrate the emotional and physical components of breast reconstruction. Readers will find advice about choosing...
by Michael J. Harvey, J. Scott Altenbach, Troy L. Best
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The only mammals capable of true flight, bats are among the world’s most fascinating creatures. This accessible guide to the forty-seven species of bats found in the United States and Canada captures and explains the amazing diversity of these marvels of evolution.
A wide variety of bat species...
by Erwin H. Ackerknecht, Charles E. Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Erwin H. Ackerknecht’s A Short History of Medicine is a concise narrative, long appreciated by students in the history of medicine, medical students, historians, and medical professionals as well as all those seeking to understand the history of medicine.
Covering the broad sweep of discoveries...
Star-Spangled Banner
The Unlikely Story of America's National Anthem
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
Nearly every American knows The Star-Spangled Banner, the national anthem of the United States of America. Yet many people dislike the song, contend that it glorifies militarism, and question its suitability as the musical embodiment of nationhood. Even professional vocalists have trouble singing...